Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Spatially expandable fiber-based probes as a multifunctional deep brain interface

  • Shan Jiang,
  • Dipan C. Patel,
  • Jongwoon Kim,
  • Shuo Yang,
  • William A. Mills,
  • Yujing Zhang,
  • Kaiwen Wang,
  • Ziang Feng,
  • Sujith Vijayan,
  • Wenjun Cai,
  • Anbo Wang,
  • Yuanyuan Guo,
  • Ian F. Kimbrough,
  • Harald Sontheimer,
  • Xiaoting Jia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19946-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Existing neural interfaces are limited in accessing one, small brain region. Here, the authors introduce a scaffold with helix hollow channels, which direct multisite multifunctional fibre probes into the brain at different angles, allowing for simultaneous recording and stimulation across distant regions.